MRW when my Fediverse home is overrun with spam, the sole instance owner/admin/maintainer is missing, repo inactive for months, then the site goes offline for 24 hrs and returns without explanation
MRW when my Fediverse home is overrun with spam, the sole instance owner/admin/maintainer is missing, repo inactive for months, then the site goes offline for 24 hrs and returns without explanation
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Overrun with spam? I don't see any, and I'm on here all day every day.
There are several communities like https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/newest that are riddled with prescription drug and direct links to pirated content. It has died down recently and it looks like someone or something* has been pruning them, but there's still several links that haven't been scrubbed. I mean, I'm just speculating about who/what is cleaning up, because there's been no administrative communication about...well, anything lately.
I mean, I love the guy, he has been nothing but kind to the userbase, but he's spread himself way too thin and the cracks are really starting to show. There's no oversight, and that is bad. Because some dumbfuck is gonna post something really stupid one of these days, and that instance is gonna get a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons.
I don't know that I would call four posts by one account all at the same time several days ago as "riddled." I wholly agree with your second paragraph.
There was a lot more than that. Last time I checked (a few days ago), there was a ton of spam that was posted over the past three weeks. Some of those 3-week old posts are still there, which is a long time for content to go unmoderated. And people have been applying for community owner and mod positions to help out, they just haven't been approved yet.
Fair. You're not wrong; I'm just trying to be as objective as possible.
I know that it can be crazy hard for a person who has built a "thing" to share administrative control of that thing, even when circumstances demand it. It took me a good long time to come to terms with that.